TO SOPHIA RAVICH

Written:Written on June 27, 1916Published:First published in 1930 inLenin Miscellany XIII.

      Sent from Zurich to Geneva.

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	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 36,

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DearComrade Olga,

Inessavery badly needs a
passport.[1]We beg you to take
the enclosed letter to Guilbeaux (directeur deDemain, 28
rue du Marché, visitors on Fridays 2–4; perhaps it would be
better to ask him for an interview by postcard).

Ofcourse don’t tell either him,or anyone else,whothe
passport is for.

Itis better to see Guilbeaux personally: we have thought
it over from every angle, and have decided that it would
be better than writing to him. I hope this request will not
give you or V. K. too much trouble.

Haveyou at your library the book byYu. Delevsky(I
think that’s his name?):Class Contradictions within the
Modern Proletariat, orsomething like
that?[2]

Ifit’s not at your library, perhaps you know someone
who has it (and, by the way, do you happen to know the
exact title of the book?).

Bestgreetings to you both,Yours,Lenin

Nadyasends her regards.

[1]InMay 1916, Inessa Armand returned to Switzerland from Paris.
It is not known whether a passport was obtained.

[2]Yu.Delevsky,Social Antagonisms and the Class Struggle in
History, St. Petersburg, Obshchestvennaya Polza Publishers, 1910.